The Flatland is Man's Land
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The Flatland is Man's Land.

A song written by Paul Hall in 1980, (c) 1987.

If cities weren't so big, war, terrorism, disease and disasters such as earthquakes wouldn't kill so many people.

This song addresses the crime of causing so many to crowd into big cities: mercantilism.

16kps mp3

 

The flatland is man's land.

It always has been.

You don't have to look twice

at the mess that it's in.

The people are dying

though they call it "live",

False cultures of money

that have nothing to give

except

blood, sweat and tears, my dear.

Blood, sweat and tears.

Getting rich off your blood

and your sweat 

and your tears.

 

The city system is a whore

that lives off hatred and greed

giving folks what they want, maybe

but not what they need.

Don't look at her wine

when it's red in her cup.

That wind is your blood.

The merchant world

drinks it up.

Blood, sweat and tears, my dear.

Blood, sweat and tears,

getting rich off your blood

and your sweat and your tears.

 

Oh, you have lived in her bowels

since you don't know when,

but her school never

taught you

how to leave the playpen.

Instead you're taught 

how her science

will improve

....the whole world.

It's only turned you

to mutants.

War's abuse

you have hurled.

 

So, you see,

the flatland is man's land.

It always has been.

You don't have to 

look twice

at the mess that it's in.

 

Blood, sweat and tears,

my dear.

Blood sweat and tears.

Getting rich off your blood

and your sweat

and your tears.

 

 



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